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Aware of the need to improve American standing in the less developed world, badly damaged by the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy adopted an idea long dis-cussed in America — the Peace Corps. Volunteers were to be recruited and trained in languages and customs. They would then serve for a three-year tour in a developing country, providing desperately needed skills. Not directly the tools of US foreign policy, they would still serve it by doing good and by presenting a positive image of Americans wherever they served. This would be a low-cost way of winning Cold War victories.
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Swift, J. (2003). The Peace Corps. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_28
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